Splunk has developed a analytics engine that allows users to ask just about any question of his data and apply time to the question and responses to see if abnormal activities are happening and if responses to the query are taking too long.
Using the HANA in-memory data engine, salespeople can use BusinessObjects Explorer to query and drill into 12 million active customer records and 700 million historical records in real-time, versus the 4-5 hours it used to take to run a report.